Another Christmas

Lyrics

Another Christmas in another man's land
Still trying to figure out how we got here
How leaving home feels like crime and hope at a time
Pray in a language that ain’t mine
For peace my mother never found
I look back

See my home moving backwards, not even stagnant
Same old thieves in power
Raising men to inherit their greed
Passing titles like family lines
Everything’s luxury now
Food like gold, rent climbing daily
People grinding harder just to stay hungry
And safety, that word don’t even mean nothing anymore

Every week it’s another headline
Church attacked in Kwara
Gunfire in Anambra
Villages crying in Benue
And before you finish mourning, another story drops
20-10-2020 still playing in my head like a broken record
Lekki toll leaving fees and taking blood
Say too much, they trace you
You post, they grab you
And before long, you learn silence like it’s survival

Had to find rest in another man’s land, didn’t plan for this
Just needed to stay sane
Needed to build, to get paid, to not beg
To work with people who pay what they owe
But Paypal say no
Blacklist your whole nation like we born with sin
Like every one of us is a scam in the system
Man it’s not fair

We working twice as hard for half the chance
Exporting talent like survival is a trade
And still, those thieves sit in power seats
Stealing in daylight, making plans
Telling us to pray, daring us
Saying “what can you do?”
Urghh
But what can we do?

Damn, another Christmas in another man’s land
Damn, another Christmas in another man’s land

Wanted to make a happy track
Something warm to play loud
But every beat takes me back, takes me back home
Every time I try to write
It’s pain, it’s pain, cause how you celebrate
When your people still suffer?
How you smile when your flag feels like burden?
I still pray though, cause I still call it home
I still pray, hoping one day we can stay, work, breathe
And not have to flee just to find peace

Joy to the world
The lord is born